Nicolai Ghiaurov

Actor

Born: September 13, 1929
Died: June 2, 2004 (age 74)
From: Velingrado, Bulgaria

Nicolai Ghiaurov (or Nikolai Gjaurov, Nikolay Gyaurov, Bulgarian: Николай Гяуров) (September 13, 1929 – June 2, 2004) was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous basses of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Mussorgsky and Verdi. Ghiaurov married the Bulgarian pianist Zlatina Mishakova in 1956 and Italian…

Filmography (15)

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2001)
Don Basilio
A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song (1992)
Self - Singer
The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991 (1991)
Self
Eugene Onegin (1989)
Prince Gremin (singing voice)
Khovanshchina (1989)
Prince Ivan Khovansky
La Boheme (1988)
Colline
Aida (1985)
Ramfis
Don Carlo (1983)
Philippe II
The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala (1983)
Self
Verdi Ernani
Verdi Ernani (1982)
Don Ruy Gomez de Silva
Macbeth (1979)
Banco
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1978)
Jacopo Fiesco
Gounod: Faust (1973)
Méphistophélès
Verdi – Messa da Requiem (1967)
Self - Bass
From the House of the Dead
From the House of the Dead
Alexandre Petrovic Goriantchikov